#ma

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#feels #free #impose #majority #minority

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#age #busy #learn #left #malady

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#insights #many #saint #sinners #stem

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#break #heart #his #man #more

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#game #heads #history #majority #middle

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#attuned #ears #enhances #evil #fellow

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

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